Re: [gctechspace] British Submarine Launch: HMS Ambush

Spear, sling shot, bow & arrow was invented for hunt & war
The spoked wheel was invented only for war
3000 years later, from the Sphinx & the Pyramids over the Buddhas of Bamiyan, to Burj Khalifa and the Spring Temple Buddha
. . . . same old , same old . . .
ships and aeroplanes built of metal, axial turbines . . . . (WW II)
(the cost of WW II would have provided every 4 person household on
the planet with a stand alone house)

finding innovation that hasn't thrived in war time is a hard thing
to do.

actually the highest levels of R&D with tangible outcomes are
during war times.

The problem is human nature, . . .
Productive? Yes, when kicked in the butt.
I'm trying to face that problem every morning when looking in the
mirror and I can't claim that I'm overwhelmingly successful ;)

Interesting to note
the defence budget is about the same size as the national
debt.

If we dodn't have to spend
so much money on blowing stuff up and potentially being
able to blow stuff up, it'd go a long way to digging the
world out of the financial slump it's been in for the last
few years.

Building all these toys is
the equivalent of just digging holes and filling them in
again, economically. It does keep some people employed,
but it produces almost nothing useful, and nothing that
helps with future growth.

I am waiting for
days, when such amount of money, effort and all,
would be spent to protect humanity rather then
to be used in another excuse war. It can be a
very dangerous toy in hands of bullies! I
thought that the measuring dicks attitude should
have died at the end of the cold war! Or are the
same pricks steering the international warfare
games?
Who does really the TOY serves?
Cheers!
J.

She
cost around
£1billion to
build, has
sonar so
sensitive it
can hear other
vessels 3,000
miles away and
carries a
giant payload
of 38 deadly
Tomahawk
cruise
missiles..

HMS
Ambush, the
Royal Navy's
newest nuclear
attack
submarine, is
one of the
most
sophisticated
and powerful
vessels of her
type ever
built.

The
giant
Astute-class
sub, which was
launched
today, is so
hi-tech she
doesn't even
need a
periscope.

Awesome:
HMS Ambush,
which was
built by BAE
Systems, is
believed to be
the world's
most powerful
nuclear attack
submarine. Her
huge weapons
payload
includes
super-accurate
Tomahawk
cruise
missiles and
Spearfish
torpedoes for
fighting other
vessels

Success:
The super
hi-tech vessel
has undergone
rigorous
testing ahead
of today's
launch.
Despite her
size the sub's
103 crew will
be tightly
packed, with
some sleeping
up to eight to
a room in bunk
beds

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